Packaging | IDM
9 2017 | international-dairy.com · 31
Norrmejerier has found an efficient and
comprehensive solution, which presents
cheese in a way that is both attractive
and customer-friendly (photo: MULTIVAC)
With three new thermoforming packaging
machines, two MULTIVAC R 535 machines
and one R 245 machine, Norrmejerier has
developed a practical solution for a consumer
friendly pack with a completely new
visual design. The project got started when
a large order was received for Herrgårdost,
Prästost and Grevé, which Norrmejerier
produces using milk from the Norrland region
in the north of Sweden.
The label on the pack will make the Norrland
dairy region a household name throughout
Sweden. And the Västerbotten cheese pack,
the star of the quartet, has a new black-gold
design intended to support the launch of the
product on export markets.
Norrmejerier was looking for an efficient
and comprehensive solution,
which would present the cheese in a way
that was both attractive and customerfriendly.
The shrink bags that had been
used to date were not suitable. "The new
technology stands for a more intelligent
and cost-effective approach in the packaging:
the material costs are lower, and
there is no longer any need for a separate
labelling process for the packs," says
Thomas Rahmner from MULTIVAC Sweden
in Lund, who was responsible for the delivery
and installation of the system.
Basis for growth
The packaging procedure itself starts with
a MULTIVAC Delta robot, which loads the
Using two MULTIVAC R 535 machines and one R 245 machine, Norrmejerier has developed
a practical solution for a consumer-friendly pack with a completely new visual
design (photo: MULTIVAC)
pieces of cheese into the pack cavities,
before the upper web is sealed. In order
to be able to run different sizes of cheese,
the three thermoforming packaging machines
were equipped with a total of nine
format sets. This means three pack shapes
for each of the 450 g, 750 g and 1000 g
weights can be produced.
"Conversion of the machines takes between
20 and 30 minutes. In the case of
the large machines, the different forming
dies are already built into the machine.
Here the die change is carried out
via the machine control and can be performed
at the push of a button on the
HMI," explains Martin Lunblad, the MULTIVAC
technician, who was involved in the
installation in Umeå
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